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Review of Rossi Two Souls of Solomon

Rossi Two Souls of Solomon

The subtitle of this recording is an explicit reference to Rossi’s social and professional position as an early seventeenth-century Jewish...

Reviewed by Iain Fenlon in issue: 6/1998

Review of Peter Serkin plays Toru Takemitsu

Peter Serkin plays Toru Takemitsu

Peter Serkin had a long-standing association with Takemitsu (who died in 1996), and the composer was present during the recording...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 3/1997

Review of Beethoven & Mozart Clarinet Concertos

Beethoven & Mozart Clarinet Concertos

When Michael Collins has given so many inspired performances in concert of Mozart’s supreme masterpiece, it is surprising that we...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 7/2000

Review of Mendelssohn Piano Trios

Mendelssohn Piano Trios

Affinity with the German repertory, we are told, led to this French trio's choice of the name Wanderer. Since their...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 11/1995

Review of Coleridge-Taylor Works for Violin and Piano

Coleridge-Taylor Works for Violin and Piano

Poor Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875-1912): little did the 23-year-old composer realise that, in relinquishing the wholesale copyright to his 1898 cantata...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 8/2003

Review of Beethoven Piano Sonatas, Vol. 7

Beethoven Piano Sonatas, Vol. 7

With Vol. 7 of his nine-volume set of the Beethoven sonatas under his belt, John O'Conor approaches the end of...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 5/1993

Review of Pfitzner: Orchestral Works

Pfitzner: Orchestral Works

It is a familiar problem of Austro-German late-romanticism that lesser composers often produced works as large-scale as those of their...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 7/1989

Review of Great Pianists of the 20th Century - Wilhelm Backhaus

Great Pianists of the 20th Century - Wilhelm Backhaus

There are great piano records, and there are great piano records. One thinks of Horowitz toying with Czerny (RCA, 11/91),...

Reviewed in issue 10/1998

Review of Liszt The Power of Love

Liszt The Power of Love

Liszt’s songs, a much underrated part of his output, find a most sympathetic interpreter in Philip Langridge. He has the...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 2/1996

Review of Vivaldi Bassoon Concertos, Vol 1

Vivaldi Bassoon Concertos, Vol 1

Having just counted 22 bassoon concertos by Vivaldi in my record collection I am chastened to find that not one...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 1/1987


 

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